Design For Values
Autor Ibo van de Poel, Jeroen Van-Den-Hoven, Pieter Vermaasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2026
Systematically integrate moral values into technology design and engineering
Translating abstract moral values into concrete design requirements remains a persistent challenge across engineering disciplines. Design For Values: Aims, Methods and Applications provides the first book-length introduction to this proactive approach, presenting a systematic methodology for embedding public and moral values into new technology. Grounded in thirty years of research at leading technical universities, it moves ethics from theory into actionable engineering practice.
The book introduces value hierarchies that convert broad principles like sustainability and justice into context-specific design requirements. It provides frameworks for navigating moral overload, value conflict, and stakeholder disagreement through structured design approaches. Four extensive case studies illustrate how these methods work in practice, demonstrating translation from ethical analysis to technical specification across varied domains.
Readers will also find:
- A design perspective on practical ethics that reframes moral reasoning as an integral component of the engineering and innovation process
- Methods for identifying, prioritizing, and reconciling competing values when multiple stakeholders hold fundamentally different moral positions on technology
- Concrete examples and illustrations throughout each chapter showing how abstract ethical principles become measurable, verifiable design requirements
- Coverage spanning digital and physical technologies, offering broader applicability than approaches limited exclusively to ICT systems or software design
- A concise treatment specifically structured for use in master-level courses, PhD seminars, and professional development programs for practicing engineers
Designed for graduate students in engineering, design, and ethics of technology, as well as practicing engineers, designers, managers, and policy makers working in science and technology, this book provides the systematic methodology needed to embed values from sustainability to justice into the technologies shaping society.
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Contributor List vii
Acknowledgement viii
1 Technology and Values 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Our Designs Are Value-Laden 2
1.3 Design for Values 3
1.4 Ethics in the 21st Century 7
1.5 Overview of the Book 8
2 Ethics and Design 10
2.1 Values in Design 10
2.2 From Applied Ethics to Ethics by Design 14
2.3 Features of the Design-for-Value Approach 18
2.4 Conclusions 20
3 Design 22
3.1 Introduction: What Is Design? 22
3.2 Analyzing Design Tasks 27
3.3 Developing Responses 29
3.4 Evaluating Responses 31
4 Values 33
4.1 Introduction: What Are Values? 33
4.2 Value Pluralism and Moral Overload 39
4.3 Putting Values in Context 42
5 Design for Values: Analyzing Tasks 50
5.1 Analyzing Design Tasks 50
5.2 Understanding and Framing Design Tasks 59
6 Design for Values: Developing Responses 71
6.1 Detailing: Specification of Values 71
6.2 Multiple Response Directions: Overcoming Moral Overload 75
6.3 Task and Response Coevolution 76
7 Design for Values: Evaluating Responses 85
7.1 Prototyping and Value Testing 85
7.2 Validation 91
7.3 Monitoring and Value Change 93
8 A Case 100
8.1 The Design Task 100
8.2 Investigations: Empathy and Stakeholders 101
8.3 Developing Multiple Responses 101
8.4 Task and Response Coevolution 104
8.5 Moral Overload 104
8.6 Evaluating Responses 105
9 Values Are Design Consequential 107
9.1 The Design Consequentiality of Values 107
9.2 Enabling and Developing Design for Values 112
10 Criticisms, Responses, and Insights 122
10.1 Existing Design Is Already Design for Values 122
10.2 Values Cannot Be Embedded in Design but Depend on Use 123
10.3 Values Are Relative to Place and Culture 125
10.4 Values Are Fundamentally Contested 126
10.5 Design for Values Can Also Be Used for Bad Purposes 128
10.6 Values are not Static Entities but Might Change 129
10.7 Design for Values Is a Technological Fix 130
Some Final Thoughts 133
Bibliography 136
Notă biografică
JEROEN VAN DEN HOVEN is University Professor at Delft University of Technology. He is Founding Editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology, Scientific Director of the Delft Digital Ethics Centre, permanent member of the European Group on Ethics, co-chair of the WHO Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI in Health, and permanent member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies.
IBO VAN DE POEL is Professor in Ethics and Technology at TU Delft. A member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), he is a principal investigator of the gravitation project Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies and has published widely on responsible innovation and design for values.
PIETER VERMAAS is Professor of philosophy of quantum technologies at TU Delft, where he leads ethics research for the Dutch national programme QDNL. His current research concerns the moral, societal, and political impact of quantum computing, quantum internet, and quantum sensing.